Toshiba Qosmio and Bluetooth

[Dudley]

Has anyone knowledge of problems on Toshiba Qosmio laptops caused by the Bluetooth facility? Mine recently crashed (tweed screen and could only be opened in Safe Mode) and required a complete re-install and several system restores before the machine would function properly and then crashed again once the Bluetooth was switched back on. The problem appears to be resolved by leaving the Bluetooth switched off. Any advice appreciated.

[ChuckFickens]

download and install the latest drivers from the Toshiba site for the bluetooth (and possibly wireless network card too) would be a good starting point.

[Dudley]

Thanks Chuck, I have downloaded the latest drivers but I don't have the confidence to switch the Bluetooth back on. I am considering getting a Dongle to download photos from my camera and phone which is all I use it for.

[ChuckFickens]

if it is working I would say download every available driver for your laptop from the toshiba site, burn them to cd and then try turning the bluetooth on

Then if it dies again and you have to reinstall it's not a major job as you have all the drivers ready to go.

though if it is geniunlly faulty then bluetooth adaptors are less than a fiver on amazon... however they will use a lot of the same bluetooth software and may just cause the same problem, don't know to you try though.

Go on live life on the edge, turn it on and see if the driver update has sorted it :)

[Dudley]

Thanks Mate, I will sleep on it. What bothers me is that on all our office computers the Bluetooth causes the most problems and every time we log on, we have to click off several Bluetooth boxes before we can access files. They are Dell computers and we are told it would take an hour or so to remove this from each computer. We have about 40 of them.

[birdie1971]

I've got a Qosmio x300 and haven't had this problem. The bluetooth seems to work okay. However, I have had a few strange problems with mine. What Qosmio have you got?

[Dudley]

Hi Birdie, mine is a Qosmio G20 all singing and dancing and as you know, very expensive. I have to say I am disappointed with it, having had a Dell Inspiron previousy (which my daughter still uses). It is a beautiful machine to look at (and is the main reason I purchased it but there are several basic irritations not least the awful touchpad which is erratic to say the least. Despite numerous attempts at adjustment the cursor has an annoying habit of jumping off a highlighted tick box or icon, just as you attempt to click onto it. I now use a wireless mouse on the arm of my chair to get round the problem which is not ideal. The two 60gb hard disks operate separately and data on one or the other can sometimes not be found by the program being used. Why this method was chosen instead of one 120gb disk is puzzling. I can't find out any advantages this brings. You tend to get one disk almost full and when you transfer stuff to the other, your problems begin and then there is the Bluetooth problem. I have never found the machine to be as quick as the Dell either despite having a 'faster' processor.